Swanage & Corfe Castle

Went down Strongy's neck of the woods at the weekend.











Caught the train to Corfe Castle,







Couldn't manage the walk round the real Castle so went to the model village instead.













Lovely place, even saw a Kingfisher in the Garden.

 

My pleasure, take a closer look at the building with the big hole.

I used to go to the Hastings model village when I was a Ziglet, don't know if its still there? I expect Jenny will know.

 

Bourton on the Water? Think I studied that in Geography, is it a market town with 2 rivers?

 

Hi Ziggy,
We were down in Swanage in a mobile home overlooking the Bay ,Town and Isle of Wight last week! Very wild,wet and windy and lovely to watch the weather coming from behind Corfe , over us and on out to sea. Changed every 10 minutes. AND they were firing on Lulworth tank range for half the night - just to add to the amusement. HWMBO was sorry that the Steam Special Princess Elizabeth(Princess Royal class) failed to make it to Swanage due to a broken steam pipe the day before.

Hastings model village was opened by Stanley Deboo (local hobnob) in 1955 and it was very popular but, due to serious vandalism on several occasions, it was closed in 1988. Some lovely photos on Flicker though,
Jenny namaste

 

My NEW neck
Jenny, it's still wet and windy !!!

 

Didn't know you'd had a neck transplant Drove past Wareham but didn't think i#d recognise your new gaff just from the pics

Thats a shame about the Hastings one closing Jenny Some people just wreck things for everyone else.

 

Its great isn't it, no one has graffitiied over it either.

Just need to be anywhere where the mrs isn't

 

Great pics of Swanage victorian sea front , like the 3D effect paint job as well !

 

Great pictures Ziggy!